A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Surrey, England, UK
Born:
January 15, 1965
Robin was born in Surrey, UK in 1965. He attended The King's School Canterbury (where he obtain his first agent whilst playing Mercutio in a school play) followed by Manchester University where he read History of Art. He then went to The Arts Educational Schools Acting Company where he studied drama. Having worked in theatre and television in the UK and Vienna (where he met his wife, the Actress Lucy Sullivan). His big break came in 2003 when he was cast as the camp comedy actor Kenneth Williams in 'Round the Horne Revisited' which was such a success that it went from fringe theatre to the West End, Tv Special and the Royal Veriety Show. Since then he has played among others, Carmen Ghia opposite Peter Kay in the UK tour of 'The Producers', Lt Gruber in 'Allo Allo', Robin Craigie in 'Volcano' by Noel Coward in the West End. He has appeared in many commercials, the latest being for Heinz Ketchup with the wonderful Ed Sheeran.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.